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HMS Shannon (1906)
HMS ''Shannon'' was a armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. ''Shannon'' spent most of the war unsuccessfully patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.
==Description==
''Shannon'' displaced as built and at deep load. The ship had an overall length of , a beam of and a mean draught of . Her beam was wider and her draught one foot less than her sisters in the belief that she would prove to be the fastest ship in the class. ''Shannon'' was powered by a pair of four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by 24 Yarrow water-tube boilers. The engines were designed to reach a total of and were intended to give a maximum speed of . ''Shannon'' proved to be the slowest ship in the class; during her sea trials on 3 December 1907 her engines reached , but she only reached a speed of The ship carried a maximum of of coal and an additional of fuel oil that was sprayed on the coal to increase its burn rate. At full capacity, she could steam for at a speed of . ''Shannon'' was designed to carry 779 officers and enlisted men, but had a complement of 819 in 1908 and 842 in 1912.〔Burt, pp. 86, 93–95〕
The ship's main armament consisted of four BL 9.2-inch Mark X guns in two twin-gun turrets, one each fore and aft. Her secondary armament of ten BL 7.5-inch Mark II guns were mounted amidships in single turrets. Anti-torpedo boat defence was provided by sixteen QF 12-pounder (3-inch) 18-cwt guns.〔"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 18 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.〕 ''Shannon'' also mounted five submerged 17.7-inch torpedo tubes, one of which was mounted in the stern.〔Burt, p. 94〕
The waterline armour belt consisted of of Krupp cemented armour roughly between the fore and aft 7.5-inch gun turrets, but was reduced in steps to three inches to the ends of the ship. The gun turrets and barbettes were protected by of armour. The thickness of the lower deck was . The armour of the conning tower was thick.〔Burt, p. 86〕
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